Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Criticizing another’s garden doesn’t keep
the weeds out of your own.
Crooked by nature is never made straight by
education.
Crooked carlin, quoth the carle to his wife.
Crooked iron may be straightened with a
hammer.
Crooked load will not get to the destination.
Crooked logs make straight fires.
Crooked wood burns quite as well as
straight.
Crooked wood is straightened with fire.
Crooks do not dip into each other’s pocket.
Crooks do not sell each other broken axes.
Cross before it reaches your knees. (Take
action before things get worse)
Cross even a stone bridge after you’ve
tested it.
Cross in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat
you.
Cross the river among a crowd and the
crocodile won’t eat you.
Cross the stream where it is the shallowest.
Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.
Crosses are the ladders to heaven.
Crowd around for the getting, move out of
the way when it’s time to pay.
Crowning a clown won’t make him a king.
Crowns have cares.
Crows are black everywhere.
Crows are black the world over.
Crows are never the whiter for washing
themselves.
Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat
them.
Crows do not peck out crow’s eyes.
Crows everywhere are equally black.
Crows weep for the dead lamb then devour
him.
Crows will not pick other crows eyes.
Crows with crows and ravens with ravens.
Crumb not your bread before you taste your
porridge.
Cry and the whole world cries with you.
Cry not for the hair when the head is off.
Cry not out before you are hurt.
Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor.
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Cultivate a heart of love that knows no an-
ger.
Cultivate friends who pray for you, not prey
upon you.
Cultivate not a barren soil.
Cultivate the garden within.
Culture is one thing, and varnish is another.
Cultures are born and die, but the cheese is
immortal.
Cunning comes to an end, what remains is
folly.
Cunning has little honour.
Cunning is superior to strength.
Cunning is the ape of wisdom.
Cunning men deal in generalizations.
Cunning men’s cloaks sometimes fall.
Cunning surpasses strength.
Cupidity has no peak.
Cure catarrh with wine.
Cure the illness that is not yet an illness.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Curiosity killed the cat. Satisfaction brought
it back, that’s why the cat has nine lives.
Curious Varvara’s nose was torn off.
Curse well.
Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at
night.
Cursed cows have short horns.
Cursed is the home where the hen does the
crowing.
Curses are like chickens, they always come
home.
Curses are like chickens, they come home to
roost.
Curses are like processions: they return to
whence they set out.
Curses are like young chickens, And still
come home to roost.
Curses on accounts with relations.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
Curses: like chaff, who throws them, catches
them.
Cursing the weather is never good farming.
Curtesie is cumbersom to them that kens it
not.